Interstellar Updates

 

These are items of interest to the interstellar exploration community that we’ve found in our quest for information that will help us advance toward our goals.  If you know of anything we’ve overlooked, or any sources of such information we should monitor, or if you would like to be added to our IRG-updates mailing list and receive these updates in you email every weekday, please send that information to info@irg.space.

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September 16, 2022 updates

The impending opacity challenge in exoplanet atmospheric
characterization
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01773-1

Constraining the origin of giant exoplanets via elemental abundance measurements
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa44516-22/aa44516-22.html

The GAPS Programme at TNG – XXXVIII. Five molecules in the atmosphere of the warm giant planet WASP-69b detected at high spectral resolution
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa43854-22/aa43854-22.html

The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). I. Dry Cases—The Fellowship of the GCMs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac6cf0

The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). II. Moist Cases—The Two Waterworlds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac6cf2

The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). III. Simulated Observables—the Return of the Spectrum
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac6cf1

A Journey Through Tides
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780323908511/a-journey-through-tides

A CHEOPS-enhanced view of the HD3167 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06937

TESS-Keck Survey XIV: 2 giant exoplanets from the Distant Giants Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06958

September 15, 2022 updates

GJ 3090 b: one of the most favourable mini-Neptune for atmospheric characterisation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa43975-22/aa43975-22.html

Magnetic Drag and 3D Effects in Theoretical High-resolution Emission Spectra of Ultrahot Jupiters: the Case of WASP-76b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac897b

Revising Properties of Planet–Host Binary Systems. II. Apparent Near-Earth-analog Planets in Binaries Are Often Sub-Neptunes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac89ed

Geometric albedos at short optical wavelengths for the hot Jupiters WASP-43b, WASP-103b, and TrES-3b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06680

Segment-level thermal sensitivity analysis for exo-Earth imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06762

Global dynamics and architecture of the Kepler-444 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06810

September 14, 2022 updates

Smaller Sensitivity of Precipitation to Surface Temperature Under Massive Atmospheres
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL099599

Color Dependence of the Transit Detectability for Young Active M-dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05765

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Stable radial-velocity variations at the rotation period of AD~Leonis — A test case study of current limitations to treating stellar activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05814

Gaia-TESS synergy: Improving the identification of transit candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05845

Redundant Apodized Pupils (RAP) for high-contrast imagers robust to segmentation-due aberrations and island effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05857

The influence of host star activity evolution on the population of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05860

Coronagraphy for DiRect Imaging of Exoplanets (CIDRE) testbed 1: concept, optical set up, and experimental results of adaptive amplitude apodization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05862

The Climate and Compositional Variation of the Highly Eccentric Planet HD 80606 b – the rise and fall of carbon monoxide and elemental sulfur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05910

Convective outgassing efficiency in planetary magma oceans: insights from computational fluid dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06199

Joint Constraints on Exoplanetary Orbits from Gaia DR3 and Doppler Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05516

September 13, 2022 updates

The orbital architecture and stability of the μ Arae planetary system
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2584/6696387

Geometric Albedos at Short Optical Wavelengths for the Hot Jupiters WASP-43b, WASP-103b, and TrES-3b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac905d

Searching for the Transit Signal of the Exoplanet Gl,514,b in the TESS Photometry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac905e

The KOBE experiment: K-dwarfs Orbited By habitable Exoplanets. Project goals, target selection and stellar characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05205

The phase curve and the geometric albedo of WASP-43b measured with CHEOPS, TESS and HST WFC3/UVIS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05303

September 12, 2022 updates

To Boldly Go, Where No One Has Gone Before: Overview of the Science Discoveries Enabled by an Interstellar Probe in the 2030’s
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022cosp…44.3194B/abstract

Stella: Europe’s contribution to a NASA interstellar probe
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022cosp…44.3196B/abstract

The Pragmatic Interstellar Probe Study: Completion and Results https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022cosp…44.3195M/abstract

Testing theories of gravitation with the Interstellar Probe Radio Experiment
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022cosp…44.3010P/abstract

Could They Have Been in the Asteroid Belt? The Subtleties of Technosignatures
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022cosp…44.2817E/abstract

‘We can find life outside the solar system in 25 years’, researcher says https://www.space.com/finding-life-outside-solar-system-in-25-years

Optical properties of the solar gravity lens
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2522/6695110

Bayesian Characterisation of Circumbinary Sub-stellar Objects with LISA
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2555/6695101

Structural stability of a lightsail for laser-driven interstellar flight https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522004684

The Exoplanet Modeling and Analysis Center at NASA Goddard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04005

The Demographics of Kepler’s Earths and super-Earths into the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04047

Revisiting the Transit Timing Variations in the TrES-3 and Qatar-1 systems with TESS data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04080

Multifractal charactarization as a function of timescale in the light curves with planetary signal observed by the kepler mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04408